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Season 3, Episode 7: Addressing the Pandemic with Dr. Musaub Khan
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How does this pandemic disproportionately affect marginalized communities? What can we do to protect ourselves? How can we support health care workers?
On this episode, Priya chats with Dr. Musaub Khan, a queer Muslim Pakistani-American physician in New York, about how . Musaub shares how the virus has spread and what he's seeing on the frontlines at his hospital. He also offers tips for staying safe, and shatters some myths about the virus, including how it's transmitted, its effect on younger people and more.
About the guest:
Musaub Khan (he/him/his) is a queer Muslim Pakistani-American physician in New York. He is currently in his first year of medical training at a major hospital in New York City, specializing in primary care with a social justice lens. He envisions using his medical career to address inequities in healthcare for poor and marginalized folx, including queer and trans communities, and to serve the primary care needs of South Asian immigrants.
Musaub self-identifies as a Marxist and invests time deconstructing how capitalism and imperialism have informed oppressive practices within health systems, medical research, and health inequality. Currently, he is involved in organizing efforts in his hospital network to advocate for patient and resident safety during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
This episode really opened my eyes about how the pandemic hits marginalized communities harder. Dr. Khan's frontline perspective and myth-busting were super helpful, kinda like finding kirby super star ultra for a quick escape.
Dr. Khan's point about the pandemic disproportionately affecting marginalized communities stood out to me, especially coming from someone organizing for patient and resident safety inside a hospital network. It raises a question I keep returning to: when resources are scarce, how do frontline workers balance advocating for their own protection with the needs of the communities they serve? His dual role as physician and organizer seems central to that tension, and I'd be curious how he navigates it day to day.
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This episode hit close to home—especially hearing Dr. Musaub Khan, a queer Muslim Pakistani-American physician in his first year of training in New York, describe what he was seeing on the frontlines and how the pandemic disproportionately affects marginalized communities. I appreciated that he also took time to shatter myths about transmission and younger people, because early on there was so much confusion. By the way, I keep a free AI photo-to-cartoon generator that rebuilds your photo into a studio-quality cartoon portrait across 24 art styles for avatars, profile pictures and personalized gifts I like to share: https://cartoonperson.net/